Word: mained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that she speaks into is thick with cigar smoke. We are standing outside the main ballroom to the Park Plaza Hotel where the AFL-CIO convention has been in session for several days. Tommy O'Neill is leaving the room, shaking hands with people. "Hi, I'm Tommy O'Neill, and I'm running for lieutenant governor, I'd like to ask for your vote." He is patted on the back. "Good luck, Tommy...
...were to be rent free, but it also included an under standing of military assistance and protection for the Philippines, which was later gutted by the Nixon Doctrine (Guam, 1969). Is it any wonder, there fore, that the attitude of the Philippine government now is, "If you want to main tain bases here, pay rent for them...
...economic think tank in Lexington, Mass.: "The President has taken as tough an approach to wage-price standards as is possible short of statutory controls. The program has a reasonable prospect of success." General Electric Chairman Reginald Jones agreed, explaining: "It was reassuring to hear the President place his main emphasis on measures aimed at the basic causes of inflation: excessive Government spending and regulations that add needlessly to the cost of doing business." While voicing some reservations, Carter Murphy, head of Southern Methodist University's economics department, viewed Carter's promise to veto more tax cuts as "a courageous...
Despite these plaudits, there were some serious objections. Most critics had three main complaints about Carter's program: 1) it does not include an all-out and specific attack by Carter on Government spending; 2) it does nothing to influence the supply of money, which usually grows along with federal spending and is thus a major cause of inflation; 3) it does not provide for any real enforcement of the wage-price guidelines...
...boycott against Rhodesia. During that time, Rhodesia has managed to survive quite well with the help of embargo-breaking Western countries and supplies from South Africa. Meanwhile, Zambia's economy has dwindled toward disaster. Landlocked, Zambia needed transit routes through Rhodesia to southern Africa's ports for its main export, copper. After the boycott closed the Rhodesian borders, scarce alternative routes disappeared, world copper prices declined, and Zambia began running short of food, machinery, oil fertilizer, soap and coal. Inflation ballooned to 30%, fueled partly by expensive airfreight shipments to speed goods, and foreign debt climbed to $1.5 billion...